- [Voiceover] Alright, let's start things outby taking a look at the Scale Tool and seeing howit compares to a Dynamic Transformation.I'm gonna create a new document by going up to the File menuand choosing New From Template,or I could press Control + Shift + N,or Command + Shift + N on the Mac,and then I'll just go ahead and double clickon my center guides document like so.And I'm gonna go ahead and changea couple of settings up here.I'll switch the Fill to something like, orange let's say,and then I'll take the Lineweight up to three points.And next I'll grab my Rectangle Tool, which of courseI can get by pressing the M key,and I'll just go ahead and Alt + Click or Option + Clickat the intersection of those two guidesto bring up the Rectangle dialogue boxand I'm gonna dial in 100 for both the valuesand click OK.

Next I'll go ahead and double click on one of theseround corner widgets in order to bring upthe Transform panel, and I'll dial in around this valueof 20 points, and because I have my Link icon turned on,that goes ahead and rounds off all the corners.Alright, now I'll go ahead and hide that Transform panel,and I'll press the V key to switch backto my Black Arrow Tool.Alright, now I wanna move this guy over so I'll pressthe Enter key or the Return key on a Mac in orderto bring up the Move dialogue box,and I'll change the horizontal value to let's say 200 pointsand I'll leave the vertical value set to zero points,and then I'll go ahead and click on the Copy buttonor of course you can press Alt + Enter here on the PC,or Option + Return on the Mac in order to createa duplicate of that guy.

And then I'll click on the original, press the Enter keyagain or the Return key on a Mac, to bring upthe Move dialogue box and I'll change the horizontal valueto negative 200 this time and click OK.Alright so again, the purpose here is to demonstratethe difference between working with a Transform effectthat we saw on a previous chapter,and the old school Scale Tool.And so one way to apply transform is to go upto the Window menu and chose the Appearance commandand that'll bring up the Appearance panel.And then I could drop down to the Effects iconin the bottom left corner of the panel,choose Distort & Transform, and then choose Transform.

Another way to work however,is to just go up to the Effect menu,choose Distort & Transform.Notice we're seeing the exact same commands,and then choose the Transform command.So either the Effect menu or this Effects icon,either way is gonna work.And now I'll change the scale values to 300% eachlike so.And then I'll turn on the Preview checkbox,just so we can see what's going on.And something that I want you to notice hereis that the Transform effect goes ahead and increasesthe roundness of the corners.

So it goes ahead and scales that round cornerswe're seeing right here.You also have the option if you like of scalingthe strokes and effects by turning on this checkboxwhich I'm gonna go ahead and do, and then I'll click OKin order to scale that shape.Alright, now let's see how a Dynamic Transformationcompares to a static one.I'll go ahead and click on this shape right thereand then I'll select the Scale Tool,which by the way you can get by pressing the S key,and just as when you select one of the Arrow Toolsand press the Enter key or the Return key on a Mac,you bring up the Move dialogue box.

I'll go ahead and cancel out there.If I switch to the Scale Tool, and press the Enter keyor the Return key on a Mac, I bring upthe Scale dialogue box.Now at which point, I'm gonna change myuniform value to 300%, that's handy by the way.I don't have to enter 300% in two different fields,I can just enter it once.And then, notice in addition tothe Scale Strokes & Effects checkbox,which I can turn off or on, and of course I can seethe effect if I have the Preview checkbox turned on,I also have an independent Scale Corners checkbox,which I can leave off if I don't want to scale the corners,or I can turn on if I do want to scale those corners.

So you have a little more convenience,as well as a little more flexibility when you'reusing the Scale Tool.Now of course the big difference is thatone's a Dynamic effect and one is not.So if I were to go up to the View menuand choose the outline command, or press Control + Yor Command + Y on the Mac, then I would see thatthe shape on the left is still small becauseit's been modified dynamically,and the shape on the right is as largeas it appears on the Preview mode.Alright, I'm gonna press Control + Y,or Command + Y on a Mac in order to switch backto the Preview mode.

One more thing I want you to see, if I go aheadand press the V key to switch back to my black arrow Tool,and I click on the shape to select it.Notice here in the Appearance panel,we're seeing the word "transform," and if I click on itthen I will bring up my transformation settingsat which point of course I could change my mindif I like by turning on the Preview checkboxand then changing these values to let's say, 200%like so.At which point I'll go ahead and click OKin order to apply that effect.Compare that with a static transformation,I'll go ahead and click on that static shapeand you can see that we have no information aboutthe transformation here inside the Appearance paneland in fact, Illustrator has not the vaguest ideahow large this shape was when we started.

And so that's ultimately the differencebetween a Dynamic Transform effect,and a Static Transformation.The former allows you to change your mindany time you like.The latter is more or less permanent,however it gives you more control.And we're gonna see further evidence of whatthat control looks like in the very next movie.

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